Network Infrastructure

Global Digital Exemplars Cambridge University Hospitals and West Suffolk have created a link between their Electronic Patient Record systems, with the functionality currently available in the A&E departments of Addenbrooke's and West Suffolk hospitals.

UNC Health Care has reached Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, which measures healthcare facilities on their use of advanced analytics and health information technology.

Tech giants are seemingly launching an AI platform every other day, but does the UK health system have the capabilities necessary to help these advancements live up to the hype, with a large chunk of its organisations still running on paper or using fax machines and pagers? A recent HIMSS UK Executive Leadership Summit (ELS) saw patients, entrepreneurs, clinicians, researchers and scientists discuss during a panel debate whether the NHS is ready for an AI-enabled future.

Symantec's technology can give hospitals advanced automated detection of targeted attacks while Fortinet's new product helps bridge the gap between network operations and security operations centers.

Middletown Medical left a radiology interface open to the public, exposing patient data in the process.

The hackers behind the attack on Allscripts have hit 10 organizations in the last few months, levering open RDP connections to proliferate inside a network.

Healthcare is the only industry where inside threats outnumber outside threat actors, according to Verizon’s most recent breach report.

The health system is building out the portfolio of mission-critical apps and services it can manage for hospitals moving those into the cloud.

The Maryland insurer is already involved in a lawsuit stemming from a 2014 breach of about 1.1 million members.

The mission of the chief information officer is shifting quickly toward innovation, transformation and revenue generation, with organizations leaning on these execs more for their sociology and business school training than IT chops.